Screen savers in VM's are bad... Eat processors... Set them to blank On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Craig Gauss <gau...@rhahealthcare.org>wrote:
> We have had some reports of "slow performance." I was wondering about > the RAM our consultant had us set them at 512 but that seems low to me. > Especially with VMs because they will only use it when it needs it. > > Haha, dont think it is just your users. Ours complain about some things > like that as well. > > I did shut off the page file on one and it sure seems to come back from the > screen saver a lot quicker. > > > Craig Gauss, Technical Supervisor/Security Officer > Riverview Hospital Association > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, October 02, 2009 3:03 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: VMware View > > Give 'em as much memory as possible. Our database apps (especially those > that have a lot of screen redrawing for long lists of numbers) run at a > crawl without 4GB of RAM, even though they are only XP 32-bit machines. > Don't know whether it is just our thin clients or not, but don't expect the > performance of animated mouse pointers and the like to be up to much > (probably only our users would complain about such a thing, however). If you > are going to be using multiple screens, we have found SplitView to be very > handy. > > 2009/10/2 Craig Gauss <gau...@rhahealthcare.org> > >> Just looking to see if anyone else out there is running View and if they >> have come up with any sort of best practices when it comes to Windows >> workstations. We followed Vmware's best practice guide but I am >> wondering if anyone else has found some good things that worked for >> them. I did read on one forum that some users have found it better to >> set the VMs with no page file. >> >> Anyone? >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> > > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > http://raythestray.blogspot.com > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
